The opening of the movie is so illogical that it may actually explain why wrong thinking is so prevalent. Ice-T makes a good point: Do poor communities (of any race) build guns, or grow poppy plants (the basics of hard drugs)? Of course not. Ice-T then makes a bad point: He blames the white man. What? I grew up in the slums of NYC until I left at age 17 and never looked back. Our neighborhood was a mix of blacks and Puerto Ricans. Many times, as a teen, I had to step over drug addicts and bums who camped overnight on the inner steps to the 3 story building. Sometimes, I saw needles dangling down an arm. HERE is the false logic: NO one FORCED us to take drugs or murder others. And, the only way drugs become popular is if there are buying customers. No blacks or whites are FORCED to buy or to use drugs. No one is forced to pull a trigger without a legal reason. So, because the initial logic is false, the rest of the movie fails. You cannot build a home upon lies, or a good movie upon bad logic.

OK, maybe I'm missing something here....but I rather think I'm not. Let me get this straight; this is a nice action/disaster movie on the surface. As other commentators have put it, well-worn plot with meteorites about to hit earth and only a couple of days to save civilisation. I am not American, mind, but for an American movie I do see some racial stereotypes repeated over and over here. What we see is a black fanatic church leader making a point of racism in the U.S. So far so good. Further, we see the stereotypical black criminal played by Ice-T. Of course they hate each other because one killed the other's family, but in the end you have what the white audience expects: Two black guys trying to kill each other. Of course the ones that are really concerned with saving earth are the white U.S. military, the white scientist and the white, blonde, female FBI agent. Reese is portrayed as more or less only being concerned with his vengeance. The mole in the military is a white assistant to the general and, everyone else save one in the military staff being white, there's one black guy whom we are supposed to suspect.OK, maybe I'm taking that too seriously for a cheapie video production but I think you don't have to make it THAT obvious. On a superficial level I did enjoy this movie. There was some OK action although the special effects creating the asteroid hitting San Francisco (at least they spared New York this time which was probably already destroyed a dozen times) can probably be reproduced on a home PC. When I thought about it further the above mentioned reservations spoiled it a bit for me.

(slight spoilers) Judgment Day is not a memorable movie. I like Ice-T, the cult leader is also convincing, the rest of the actors are passable. The well-worn plot (meteor wooshing toward earth, 4 days to rescue the planet, idiots trying to prevent this) offers no surprises, the characters are cardboard, the special effects sparse and not very special. The plot is rather unlikely; apparently an isolated cult leader has information about this meteor before anyone with the exception of the US government (of course); a laid-off scientist is needed in person to turn some switch to launch a totally untested weapon of mass destruction from an abandoned project. Even for an action/disaster movie it is weak. Still some nice action....4/10

A direct to video blockbuster involving meteors destroying the planet. Thats where the similarities between Not So Deep Impact, Yawnageddon, and this movie end and actual entertainment begins. The movie moves at an impressive pace with some amiable performances by all (except for an offensively lifeless performance by Amis). And the script actually serves up enough twists to keep the noodle somewhat active. It kind of treats your brain like a computer, occasionally nudging the mouse to get rid of the screen-saver. Mario Van-Peebles is in top form as a religious cult leader welcoming the end of the world.Well worth a rent.